To:THE CHEREMKHOVO COAL MINERS

Published:First published [in]Petrogradskaya PravdaNo. 253, November 11, 1920.

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	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1976],

      Moscow,Volume 35,

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September15,1920

Tothe Chief Board of Management of the Coal Mines
	  of Eastern Siberia
	  For the workers in the mines and also
	  for their technical personnel

DearComrades,

Ithank you with all my heart for your greetings of
August 2, 1920, transmitted through Comrade Ivan
Yakovlevich Ilyin. My talk with Comrade Ilyin about the energetic
work being done in the Siberian mines and his report of
the gradual growth of conscious discipline among the
workers (who are now working not for the capitalists but
for themselves) gave me tremendous pleasure.

Particularlyprecious in your greetings, comrades, was
the feeling of the deepest conviction in the final and
complete victory of Soviet power over the landowners,
capitalists and all kinds of exploiters, and also your unswerving
firmness and determination to overcome all obstacles and
difficulties. It is from this firmness of the working class
and toiling masses that, like every other Communist,
I draw my confidence in the inevitable world victory of
the workers and the workers’ cause.

Withcommunist greetings, and wishes for your speediest
success,

Devotedlyyours,V. Ulyanov (Lenin)